Archives for: December 2011
“We’re all mad here.”
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Hello, and welcome to this edition of our blog! My name is Skye, and I will be your host for this week’s update. With scheduling, location scouting, casting and meetings, this has definitely been a busy week for our team! Even with this productive week, it’s only going to get more intense as production rolls around with the New Year! [...]

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Building The House Of Cards
Brainstorming

Things have definitely started to pick up for Team Queen as the vision of our tale becomes clearer with every meeting. For starters, we had some very interesting tweaks to our script which we are confident will add more of a thrill to the audience’s experience. Minor changes were made to enhance our characters’ depth which we believe will provide the viewer [...]

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Compendium all the way!
Mood Board

As we mentioned last week, we are going on Christmas Break starting this Friday. Does this mean that we are taking a break from Compendium? Does this mean we can just relax and drink egg nog until we are so sick of it that we have to wait one full year to drink it again? Well, of course not ladies [...]

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Zombie Growls in ADR Session
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Today, we would like to share with you some highlights from our recent ADR session for “There’s No Place Like Home”. ADR refers to Additional Dialogue Recording – the re-recording of some of the dialogue to improve the original quality of audio, or the recording additional sounds. ADR is traditionally done in the post-production phase of the film. In our [...]

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Writer protocol, VFX conundrums and innappropriate use of meeting room trappings
Everyone could use some tea

Ah, come in, come in! What a pleasant surprise. Can I offer you tea, and something to eat? No, of course I can’t. That’s impossible, as you are reading a blog post. However, thank you for tuning in, and I hope to regale you with tales of our Compendium adventure riveting enough to make you forget such trivial matters as [...]

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Team Queen’s Meeting
Decisions

Welcome back to another collection of thoughts from the eyes of the producers. Here is Team Queen checking in. With each week into pre-production, we are all getting more and more excited to continue. Just this past weekend our team got together for a meeting and, for the first time, met our writer, Casey Splinter. This was also the first [...]

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Sailing into Alice in Wasteland

Sailing into Alice in Wasteland Written by Alper Demirci Edited by Marlon Doll In our first two blogs, we described Vancouver Film School’s Compendium series to give you an idea of what we are doing. We’ve read and analyzed many brilliant scripts written by VFS students and alumni, and we’ve decided to work with talented writer, Adam Warren, now an [...]

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Finding out what our Cheshire Cat story will look like…
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This week I am your host, Maria Lozano. I am very happy to continue telling you about our great journey in initiating this project. So, for the past couple of weeks we have been gathering up different references for the concept art, that we would like to have in our short film. This includes different images of what Alice could [...]

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